Interested broadly in the movements of Science Fiction across media, this panel seeks papersthat address this genre (and its questionable boundaries) as a means to bring the future into thepresent. According to Philip K. Dick, Science Fiction must â€œhave a fictitious world; that is the firststep: It is a society that does not in fact exist.â€ If, however, it is nevertheless â€œpredicated on ourknown society,â€ then SciFiâ€™s so-called innovations are inherently misleading and forevergrounded in the past. If this is the case (and we are not necessarily saying it is), then how doesSciFi escape the violence of repetition/replication and safely arrive in time?